It’s been years since I posted to LiveJournal, but it’s a record of my twenties and early thirties that I’d like to hang onto…and I keep wondering when LJ is going to go the way of GeoCities (and I’m not the only one). I finally decided it was time to export the whole thing, and discovered that WordPress has a LiveJournal import tool. (Admin sidebar: Tools→Import→LiveJournal)
It took a few minutes to set up a new site (since I didn’t want to just exchange one third-party service for another), and another two minutes to import all of my posts and comments.
Nice! Now I have my own copy, and I can use WordPress’ much-better tools to actually find stuff. It’s as permanent as I want it to be. Continue reading “Archived LiveJournal”